As China's Influence Grows, Myanmar Resists

1/13/2013 10:37PM

Chinese-owned businesses are buying up real estate in Mandalay, and a backlash is growing. Myanmar and other Asian countries are attempting to resist China's widening economic and military influence. WSJ's Patrick Barta reports.

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